[muzani]

Almost always, lol. Most people don't have the high stakes "all in" gambling it takes to run a startup from 0 to billions. Often founders can waver when they can just cash out for millions, but this is against the VCs optimum.

Sometimes VCs do realize this and encourage the founder to take a high salary past a certain stage or sell some shares. I think Softbank does this to some extent, among others.